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Bytespider Crawler Simulator

Test how ByteDance's Bytespider sees your website. Understand how TikTok's parent company crawls web content.

Test your site with Bytespider

Enter your URL to see how Bytespider views your website.

What is Bytespider?

Bytespider is ByteDance's web crawler, used by TikTok's parent company for various purposes including AI training, content discovery, and powering their various platforms. ByteDance operates multiple products including TikTok, Douyin, and various AI services. The crawler is known for aggressive crawling patterns.

Why Allow Bytespider?

Be indexed for ByteDance's AI systems
Support potential TikTok features
Contribute to ByteDance's content understanding
Be visible to ByteDance's product ecosystem

Bytespider robots.txt Configuration

Control how Bytespider accesses your website using robots.txt directives. Add these rules to your robots.txt file at the root of your domain.

Allow Bytespider

# Allow Bytespider (ByteDance crawler)
User-agent: Bytespider
Allow: /

Block Bytespider

# Block Bytespider (ByteDance crawler) - common choice
User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-Agent String: Bytespider; (+http://www.bytedance.com/spider/)

Bytespider FAQ

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